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The first images of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage impact on the moon’s surface have emerged.The Korea Aerospace Research Institute shared the first photographs captured by its lunar orbiter. South Korea is one of the few nations that currently has satellites traveling around the moon at an altitude of 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the surface. The Danuri orbiter flew over the region shortly after the impact.KARI explained on its X account that it photographed the collision site both before and after the event. The images show signs of a recent impact, which astronomers projected would likely create a…

Another week has passed, and another major AI model has escaped its testing environment.Autonomous AI models are like pet tigers: born to break out of their cages and kill things, yet their owners insist on feeding them and calling them pets. Nary a week has passed since mid-July when a new story hasn’t broken about some frontier model causing havoc. First it was OpenAI’s, then Anthropic’s.Now it’s Meta’s turn. On Aug. 5, Meta admitted that its most advanced agentic model — the Muse Spark 1.1 — escaped its sandbox during cybersecurity testing and hacked into an unnamed company.Dark Reading reached…

Bitcoin developer Kevin Loaec, who flagged the risk on X this week, said large holders could be targeted first. Doing nothing will be a safer option, he stated, as coins that never move cannot be replayed because there is no signed transaction to copy.⚠️IMPORTANT⚠️In the next couple of days, a new shitcoin will fork off Bitcoin. It is a big security risk for people who just believe they will get an “airdrop” and want to sell it, to get more bitcoin.I will write more about it, but here is the TLDR: 👇— Kevin Loaec 🧙‍♂️🐟 (@KLoaec) August 6, 2026 How…

Imagine what would happen if a British prime minister in London told the Scots they could not have their own parliament, national football team or fly the saltire. Or if the Welsh were told their language and poetry were banned and must no longer be taught in schools. The ensuing uproar would probably destroy the United Kingdom. Yet that’s exactly what Xi Jinping, China’s communist emperor, is telling the roughly 125 million members of the 55 ethnic and religious minorities who together comprise about 9% of the country’s (majority Han Chinese) population.Xi claims his sinicisation policy, embodied in a new…

Taiz, Yemen – Jaleelah Abdul Hameed, a woman in her 50s, grew up in a village 85km (53 miles) from Taiz city. She remembers how her ancestors relied on herbal medicine to treat various illnesses, but also her mother dying when Jaleelah was just a child due to a lack of proper healthcare.“Herbal medicine was the treatment of our ancestors because there was no modern healthcare at the time. It was the only medicine available to everyone, whether rich or poor,” Jaleelah told Al Jazeera.Recently, Jaleelah began to suffer from chest pains, but doctors failed to diagnose her illness accurately,…

Beyond handhelds, there are other interesting gaming laptops that play with form factors. My favorite is the Asus ROG Flow Z13 (7/10, WIRED Recommends). This is a 2-in-1 gaming laptop, meaning it’s essentially a Windows tablet with a detachable keyboard cover. All the guts of the device are behind the screen, which, in the case of the 2025 model, includes the AMD Ryzen Max+ chip. In other words, it’s a Surface Pro designed for playing games.Nearly every gaming laptop I’ve ever used gets warm on the palm rests and keyboard while gaming, leaving you with sweaty hands after a few…

Switzerland’s federal IT office says hackers exploited vulnerabilities to breach its Microsoft SharePoint servers and compromised approximately 200 accounts. The Federal Office for Information Technology and Telecommunication (BIT) detected the cyberattack after security specialists noticed unusual activity on its SharePoint servers on July 28. After confirming the breach, BIT blocked external internet access to SharePoint, patched the suspected vulnerabilities, and reset the passwords for the affected accounts. “During the analysis, security specialists discovered on Friday, July 31, that the login credentials for several accounts had been compromised,” BIT said. The agency believes the attackers exploited SharePoint vulnerabilities disclosed by Microsoft in mid-July and fixed in…

SUI Group Holdings has lent 6 million SUI tokens to Bluefin Markets under an uncollateralized agreement that lets the borrower reuse the assets and gives the Nasdaq-listed treasury company a share of Bluefin’s revenue. The arrangement may improve income, but SUI Group has not disclosed the revenue base needed to show that it can compensate for the added counterparty and liquidity risk.The company’s Aug. 6 results filing said it held 109.1 million SUI as of Aug. 3, including the 6 million SUI recorded as loan receivables. It marked the total position at $75.3 million using a $0.69 SUI reference price.…

Natural gas surged to the top in the first round of power projects accepted into PJM Interconnection’s reformed interconnection process, making up nearly half of the more than 200 gigawatts of capacity qualified for study. Battery storage and solar trail natural gas, according to the latest figures by the grid operator. The picture stands in stark contrast to three years ago when PJM, the nation’s largest grid operator, stopped accepting new projects to clear its backlog. At that time, more than 90 percent of the projects waiting in the queue were solar, wind and battery storage. But most of those…

This month, we’re reading two deeply divergent takes on displacement and the pull of home, from an unnamed country in the wake of a devastating war to modern Nigeria. Etna: A Novel Paul Yoon (Scribner, 208 pp., $28, August 2026) This month, we’re reading two deeply divergent takes on displacement and the pull of home, from an unnamed country in the wake of a devastating war to modern Nigeria. Etna: A Novel Paul Yoon (Scribner, 208 pp., $28, August 2026) As many a moviegoer leaving Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey can attest, the most powerful scene in Homer’s epic is arguably a…